This is the place to showcase my book collection of primarily of Nick Carter and Carter Brown books. I started collecting with these two authors back in 1980 while on a fishing trip with my father and grandfather to Northern Minnesota.

Thursday, February 28, 2013

The man in the cotton mask......
CIA agent Phil Sherman would give anything to see behind that mask. But when he finally did, he wished he hadn't been born with eyes.!

The girl with the lightning quick hands......
Beautiful, as expert at killing with Karate and Kung Fu as she was in bed, she was supposed to be the CIA's friend. But there was something strange about her that made Sherman wonder who she was really working for!

The mysterious Chinese businessman......
He had a nasty habit of carrying lethal gas on his monthly trips from New York to the Orient.

It was like a Chinese box puzzle. Each layer took Phil Sherman a step closer to the Peking government and the secret forces that wanted to topple it in a blood bath that would engulf the world!

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Former film star Samantha Dane's career had been viciously curtailed when some unknown person threw acid in her beautiful face during a luxurious Caribbean cruise. Sam hired Rick Holman to track down the other members of the party. Among whom were a power-mad tycoon, a bisexual hooker, a nymphomaniac fortune teller, and a sadistic gangster. Each of them had a good reason to hate Samantha's guts, and one would gladly kill to keep Rick from finding out truth!

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Billions are at stake as Cherry battles the Mafia for control of the international diamond trade

Cherry: Delicious But Deadly

Diamonds are not necessarily a girl's best friend, not when she has to compete with the Mafia to get them. Our deadly but delicious heroine is flying over the vast Kalahari Desert on the first leg on a long planned African vacation. But down there among the sun blasted rocks three Mafia killers are stalking a geologist with a pocketful of gems and a map to the biggest diamond field on Earth. Cherry blitzes the killers and there goes her vacation. Her new assignment is to stop the Mob from getting a stranglehold on the billion dollar international diamond trade. The action speeds from Capetown to Marrakesh to Amsterdam, as N.Y.M.P.H.O.'s sexist agent uses beds and bullets to lay the Mafia low.

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

When an institute agent is found tortured to death in a cheap Parisian hotel, Butler thinks something smells rotten in France. And when counterfeit money, a mysterious painter, and treacherous women get into the picture, Butler discovers that gay Paree harbors the secret.......

Monday, February 18, 2013

Rod Damon, The Coxeman, learns of an enemy plot to murder world leaders by planting a remote control "bug" in the brain of a number of agents. The "bugs" are programmed to have the agents kill on demand. Rod's job is to try to join the enemy force, HECATE, in order to destroy it. But first he must pass a series of tests, one of which is a test of virility. Rod is finally accepted and "bugged" for murder. But HECATE has outsmarted Rod. He finds that he can not neutralize the assassination orders. More important, he finds that he has lost his power to make love, except on HECATE's orders! He is now an enemy controlled sex machine who threatens to screw up the whole Free World!

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Watch Cherry as she battles the Mafia for control of the world's hottest counterfeiting ring

See Cherry

She's all action, all nerve, all fire, all woman in this breathtaking action adventure pitting the Mafia, Nazi-trained master counterfeiter, and a double-crossing American named Charley Farley against our girl, the world's sexiest crime fighter, la sexecutioner supreme, the red-hot redhead Cherry, ready, willing and able to delight.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

From the time he saw the blonde on the beach next door he knew there was going to be trouble. Hugo Dorland had retired to Long Beach for the quiet life to enjoy the quarter of a million he had picked up on a horse's nose. Trouble was it was Syndicate money and a charming character named Dogface Moreno intended getting back. Whether he got it back over Hugo's dead body was incidental to him. Along with the blonde next door was a walrus and a juvenile delinquent who would have been funny if he hadn't been a dead shot. Then there was Lorelei Jones who sand "Baby It's Cold Outside" while she raised the temperature to boiling point inside by doing a strip to the music. Hugo nearly forgot, there was a murder and the shots in the night and Starlight, the fighter, and the bodies that came in with the tide. It's the sort of vacation everybody should have...once!

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Miami based DEA maverick Jack Fowler has seen the good guys fall, along with the bad. But for Jack Fowler and the dedicated men and women committed to the long and bloody U.S. war on drugs, risk came with the job, and he willingly accepted both. A top DEA agent is tortured and murdered while working undercover in the realm of Mexico's drug kingpin, Miguel Reynoso. Fowler smells a rat, a traitor on the home team. Posing as a dealer, he hits the streets of Mexico in an effort to gain access to Reynoso's desert stronghold. On paper, the operation had the makings of a classic sting. But Fowler's chosen prey is an expert hunter, capable of smelling danger in the wind. One wrong step, and his attempt to even the score would become a one way ticket beneath the blazing sun, with nowhere to go but hell.

Sunday, February 10, 2013

An exchange of intimate letters between a young lady and gentleman, recording their true amatory and disciplinary experiences of an Arabian harem and an English girl's reformatory establishment.

Cover by Roy Colmer

A Victorian Novel

The letters reveal the exploits of the handsome 30 year old rake Charles, who finds employment in a country mansion for wayward girls, and the impetuous and mischievous Lizzie who, as the daughter of Britannia's plenipotentiary in an Arabian territory makes herself privy to all the pleasures and punishments of the royal harem. Flouting all conventions of modesty and decorum, the two regale each other with tales of frolics and orgies, all the while exciting one another to paroxysms of pleasure,

Printing History

Written by Charles Carrington (1857-1921) and Jean de Villiot
copyright 1905 by Charles Carrington
Paris France

Grove Press, Inc

Black Cat Books

ISBN 394-624448

1983

Trivia
Jean de Villiot was the pseudonym of Georges Grassal (1867-1905)

Saturday, February 9, 2013

Some men will do anything for money. Cherry will do anything for the thrill of it. Anything includes playing for keeps in a game of gun smuggling, tangling with the worlds deadliest killers in the world's prettiest playgrounds, the French Rivera. Playing with Cherry is so much fun that the Mafia boys did not notice until they got it through the heart.

Friday, February 8, 2013

A beautiful heiress needs Pete Sawyer's help to untangle a terror filled past that still shatters her present......

If anyone can track down the nameless, faceless mastermind of an unsolved eight year old kidnapping, it's Pete Sawyer. Pete's latest client, Helen Marsh, was only ten when she was abducted by a ruthless gang. The gruesome business cost ten million dollars. It cost Helen two fingers. Now, she wants revenge and Pete's help to get it. With Helen's suspicions to guide him. Pete lights out on the trail of a wealthy American businessman who's up to his neck in international drug trafficking. But as Pete's manhunt zig-zags across Europe, he discovers his quarry is a man of many faces, and many secrets. And as Pete Sawyer begins to peel away the years of deception, the twists and turns of the mystery bring him closer to his own dead end....

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

The CIA washed its hands of Phil Sherman. Now that he was thoroughly briefed, all further contact with HQ was severed. No records, no files, no trace of the man the Agency sent into Haitian hell to investigate the sadistic chief of the Tontons Macoutes, Haiti's brutal, infamous secret police. The Haitian strongmen were fighting and killing for their lives. The winner will take all because in this game there were only dead losers. Word is out that Sherman's quarry is top dog, with outside assistance from Castro in Cuba. The information is correct as far as Washington knows. But the real story and Phil Sherman's actual assignment, isn't apparent until he blows his cover and is engulfed by primitive voodoo vengeance and some very sophisticated modern torture.

Monday, February 4, 2013

First there was that mid-air collision with an erotic Asian flight attendant. Then there was a midnight forest interlude with a pleasure-hungry cultist. Now, with the assistance of several beautiful, willing women, Butler is on the trail of a murderous fiend using young religious fanatics to test a lethal nerve gas. Agents of Hydra have somehow massacred a large group of religious cultists and Butler is dispatched to find out why and how. His best lead is his friend Wu but Wu's daughter seems to be on the list of the next victims.

Sunday, February 3, 2013

The cops called it an accident. But attorney Randy Roberts knew the smell of murder. Someone had taken old lady Birrel for an unwilling ride off the edge of a cliff, and with five million bucks to gain, all clues pointed to the batty gal's daughters as the prime suspects. But who would grown impatient? Hannah, the mousy, fearful vegetable of a women with king-sized lusts? Or Rhoda the splendidly stacked nympho whom the family kept chained in a basement cell? Or was it Ruth, the smouldering hunk of sex and cynicism whose interests in Robert's "briefs" was more than just legal? Finding the truth, Roberts knew, called for the most intimate of investigations. The kind you undertake with your defenses up, and your clothes off.